Retail Planning for 2025: It’s all about R-O-I

By Gray King, CEO Sizeo

We’re in the final sprint of the retail year and retail execs are knee-deep in planning for 2025. From my conversations, there are three letters on everyone's mind: R-O-I. 

Here’s what to keep in mind to ensure your 2025 projects will pass the return on investment test:

Impact: Focus on business results like revenue, cost savings, or efficiency gains. Technology is a tool for retail businesses, use it to drive results. 

Time to Value: Can this deliver results quickly? I think 2025 is a year of quick wins for AI projects - get some things deployed, learn, test, expand. 

Resources: What’s needed for implementation? Find projects that don’t need massive lifts from your internal technical or business resources. 

Intangibles: Will it improve customer experience or empower your team? While the business case needs to be rock solid, look for projects that make your internal and external customers happy. 

At Sizeo we just released a new ROI calculator, to help our customers understand how improving inventory optimization at the size store level drives better business results.